Happy Friday friends! After many requests: here's My answer to the overcoming the overwhelm of getting started in Notion FAST! Fast track the initial learning curve?!📣 Grab my free Notion Tasks Template here www.bettercreating.com/taskmanager & check out my Essential Template collection here: www.bettercreating.com/notionessentials Cheers!
@@bilianakaneva4763 No worries, it might be that Notion is not the right tool for you, since the basics of setting it up can feel that way! Good luck with finding what works :)
@@mal-avcisi9783 OK - what a shame it was not enjoyable for you. I get a huge amount of comments however from people saying they like it, as do I , so will keep it! maybe try to adjust the mic a little. thanks, Simon
I have been using Notion for a long time and I want to say that this is a great tutorial a great tutorial on how to use it. Especially for new users. I have never seen databases in this way and so well explained.
I'm absolutely in love with this video and how well you go through the main functionalities and the most relevant ones. I CANNOT BELIEVE how much time I've wasted so far watching endless minutes of videos containing so little useful information and you could go through so much in 20m. THANK YOU, I'll be subscribing and looking out for more
Great to hear! This is exactly the comment I hoped to read on this video. Thanks so much for taking time to share the positive feedback! And welcome to the BC Notion community. :)
Damn, this looks soo overwhelming... My dream Notion feature is getting the flexibility of databases but having the clean & minimalistic look of a simple [ ] checkbox list
Timestamps, because the “three areas” are not specific enough 0:00 Intro → to why people want to use Notion and how it feels when ACTUALLY trying to use it 0:51 How the Video is Divided into 3 categories 1:09 1ST CATEGORY: Basics 1:29 Create an account and open a new, blank page 1:45 What forward slash ( “ / “) can do for you → 1:55 Headings → 2:04 Divider → 2:08 Columns → 2:18 Mentioning bulleted lists & quotes and and using toggle list → 2:42 Callouts 3:19 Colors and “Turn into” function 3:40 Icons 3:59 Covers 4:10 “Customize Page” function + Full Width 4:24 Creating a Homepage Example 4:52 Intro to Databases → 5:42 Overwhelm alert + How to Access Property List → 6:11 Status → 6:21 Options within categories → 6:35 Editing Existing Properties → 7:01 “Deck” Property → 7:22 “Button” → 7:55 Filter and Sort Options → 9:00 “Views” 9:29 Table View 10:55 2ND CATEGORY: Database Relations 11:40 Changing Properties in Databases with “Type” option 12:13 Creating Multiple “Views” 13:35 Linking Together by using Relations 15:22 Download of Notion used in Video 15:51 3RD CATEGORY: Customization and Templates 17:18 Notion Templates Gallery 18:12 Next Steps
I really want to organize my life with notion and I appreciate you for making a video on how we can get started. I can say from Experience that Notion isn't "intuition-friendly" to navigate with hahaha. Maybe just a suggestion, if Notion can be similar to a social media platform that we use daily and already know, it should be easy to navigate. Thanks and I'm going to try Notion again xD
You can do it! Yes, a little learning and it unlocks! Do feedback to Notion- they tend to listen: but it is definitely designed to be ubiquitous - not a complete ready made UI ! :)
Hey Simon! Awesome video. Curious what the timeline is for the 2024 iteration of your complete LifeOS refresh is. I think I recall it dropping in April, is that still accurate? I do not want to spend a bunch of time really filling out the old version if I am going to have to transfer everything over to the new version soon so I am in a sort of holding pattern with a lot of my project management and would love to get into the new and refreshed system soon! Thanks!
Great video but after watching it all i realized my specific requirement - finding a replacement for evernote. Do you have any videos that can help in this regard? I'm eager to use notion for its clean design but getting started has been overwhelming.
Hey - i feel you - check out my Simplified Notion Life OS template and playlist - it could be great for you: This video is the full tour: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vby0FjH1ob0.html and this one is specific to Notes and Clippings section of it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VTz1oyi5v-E.html
I would love to watch your videos because they seem very educational. Unfortunately, I have a TBI, I have difficulty with the background music during dialogue, and you don't do CC. WTF man.
Thanks and sorry to hear that, now I have improved the mic set up I’m actually looking at removing some music on videos soon. Let’s see. :) CC is available - you can just turn them on.
Struggling to find the video linked in the description about creating project and database templates?!?! The link that looks to be there goes to a video about using a templated system vs creating one unless I’m clicking the wrong link
Notion is unstructured and chaotic. Tables are called databases and databases are called tables attributes are not used as in databases and links are recursive creating chaos. There is a reason why Notion stayed a niche tool and never took off.
Maybe I'm not understanding something here but it seems like setting these tasks up takes longer than maybe doing a task. It is in itself a task and should be placed on the tasks database.
Nah, I find I drop them in the inbox with one line, and then if it’s less than 2 mins to do, I just do it when I process stuff. Otherwise it takes about 10 seconds to add and defer right? It’s all good.
Hi Simon. Thanks for that video. I was one of the "overwhelmed" that commented on a previous video and this one has started to clear away the confusion and help me get started from first principles. I'm going to give Notion a 2nd try and will use the free version to just learn the basics, follow your guidance on this video and build up - before I think about migrating my current content and the way I manage my life currently. Great intro - thanks. I did have a couple of questions or suggestions - 1) Is there a way to download all of the content that is created in Notion so a user can back it up (on iCloud for example or an external drive)? if so, perhaps that's a good subject for a future video if there isn't one already. 2) Do you have any idea when Notion will be allowing integration with Outlook calendar (not just Google calendar)? Thanks again.
Hi Simon Have been following you since 2022. I was curious to know if you have the plan to give for free the Notion Life OS for students and those who can't afford it (Even the older versions)? Meanwhile, We'll highly appreciate if you put some notion courses in youtube or any other platform. Thanks
I'm tearing my hair out as I've watched several tutorials and keystrokes are different for me. for instance a narrator will say hit ## to get heading 2, when I do that I don't get any other level or font, or the forward slash for creating a new level or page has mo response. I don't know if I have some global settings that I need to change that are different from the narrator's or if I have a newer version of Notion than the tutorial that is 6 months old. All I know is I try to follow the tutorial step by step and I end up with different output than what they've shown me. and then I'm stuck with a terrible decision of trying to fix what I have or if it's so out of whack that I need to delete everything and start with brand new pages. I have a bunch of work put into it but none of it matches what I was trying to create as per the tutorials and trying to fix it seems like going down an even deeper rat hole.
Yep, I found that with the ## too! Just use /h2. Generally / is the best bet to build consistently I think. You do have to watch out on the older tutorials yes; as Notion updates the features etc. perhaps consider starting from a free template and adapt - it can be a lot faster :)
Great introduction but I'm wondering how many of these features are free vs paid? For example, I tried creating my own task management list only to find that if I wanted my completed tasks to be deleted, I had to become a paid user.
Everything I’ve built on Notion (Complete Life OS System) has been on the free plan other than the database automations: task manager is very doable on free and just using a filter for completed tasks is the best way. :) so all good!
The video was great, but it would be better if you were using Notion in Dark Mode. It was very unpleasant to watch the video with this all white screen.
Thanks for watching! overall, I’ve had more comments saying the opposite when I did dark mode I’m afraid! Old videos are in dark mode and many people find this harder to follow :) thanks for the feedback.
Notion does have free plan and it’s super comprehensive: the main difference is you can’t create automations or the new Charts when they come out. But I was running a Notion business on the free plan for 3 years - so not bad at all! :)
people waste a hell lotta time watching videos on how to make their notion pages more aesthetic instead of working their way towards achieving things in life notion increases your dependency on your phone and time blocking doesn't really work that way because in life not all the conditions are ideal
hey dude! I'm from India currently in high school can I get your life os templete for free as I don't have any payment method ! & I cannot ask for parents please!
Hey there, I recommend downloading my Task & project manager for Free: use the link below: you can also drop me an email at notion@bettercreating.com and I'll help you out with a couple of the other templates so you can join them together! :) Thanks! S
The top tasks view is a linked database view. Or ‘table view’. So main database is at the bottom as system database, and the. I create various dashboard views linking to that. How I make all my Notion systems. :)
Clean simple explanation of getting started. Would love to see more action oriented tutorials. None of this matters unless it gets things done and would be great to see how you manage it.
Noted! Thanks for the comment on this: I have a bunch of those action focused videos on the channel - just check out thinks like my Simplified Notion Life OS guides playlist :)
